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Chapter Three ended with the rise of J.P. Morgan and how he used chronic boom and bust cycles to his own great advantage. That brings us to the Panic of 1907.

The Panic of 1907 was a seminal event in the history of banking. It spawned the Federal Reserve System – but not immediately. There would be a long cloak-and-dagger affair before the Federal Reserve Act was signed into law – while Americans were distracted – two days before Christmas, on December 23, 1913.

How Congress was duped by many of its own, and how the public was blindsided into believing their government was creating a safer banking system is a testament to the power of private banks to run and, for their own profit, ruin America.

Here's how it all happened.

In The House of Morgan, Ron Chernow's history of the Morgan banking dynasty, he succinctly explains, "In the early 1900s national and most state-chartered banks couldn't take trust accounts (wills, estates, and so on) but directed customers to trusts. Traditionally, these had been synonymous with safe investment. By 1907, however, they had exploited enough legal loopholes to become highly speculative. To draw money for risky ventures, they paid exorbitant interest rates, and trust executives operated like stock market plungers. They loaned out so much against stocks and bonds that by October 1907 as much as half of the bank loans in New York were backed by securities as collateral."

Up to now, I've given you a removed history of banking. From now on I'll move you forward at times to show how what happened in the past is still happening today. You'll learn to see what's going on from the perspective of history repeating itself – then you'll be able to protect yourself and make money by seeing into the future through the dark past.

What happened during the Savings & Loan Crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s resulted in almost 800 banks failing. But it was also a slightly distorted mirror image of trust excesses in the 1900s. The S&Ls raised huge deposits garnered by hawking high-yield CDs, only to speculate in the real estate and other "investments" that would eventually blow them up.

The Knickerbocker Trust was attempting to corner copper and speculate in shares. If they succeeded, copper prices would go through the roof, and they would make hundreds of millions. But then, on October 21, 1907, copper prices began to collapse on word that Morgan and Guggenheim were getting into the copper mining business. The collapse dragged down shares across the board. The Knickerbocker Trust, with its huge position in copper, and the shares it owned, was wrecked.

Another run on banks was underway.

Bankers Trust, which was set up by the House of Morgan and its allies to capture trust business that commercial banks in the Morgan sphere couldn't profit from, was not spared in the bank run. Bankers Trust was run by Benjamin Strong, who later became the all-powerful President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

J. Pierpont Morgan personally led the rescue of the market and banks. But it had become clear that big banks, including his allied institutions, were not too big to fail.

The New York and and other Eastern banks also wanted to tame Western banks. These were growing so quickly that, by 1913, these non-national banks, outside of the Washington-New York sphere of influence, would grow to represent 71% of all the country's banks and 57% of all deposits.

The Gentleman Banker's Code, which kept Eastern banks from stealing each other's clients, needed to be enforced out West. And a lender of last resort had to be created.

As a result of the Panic of 1907, in 1908 Congress passed the Aldrich-Vreeland Act. The law was, more or less, a two-act play.

Act One authorized banks to issue "scrip" – a currency substitute that is not legal tender – instead of cash to depositors if they were facing a run, and instead of using gold or government bonds as reserves, banks could make loans (issue cash or script) against any bonds and commercial loans. In other words they could use assets, which carried real liabilities, as reserves.

Act Two created the National Monetary Commission to study and recommend legislation to bolster the banking system.

Of all the nine Senators and nine Representatives on the Commission, only one did anything.

Nelson Aldrich, the rich Republican Senator from Rhode Island, was the chairman of the Commission. Aldrich took two years to study central banking around the world. At home, he was counseled continuously by the "Money Trust" – bankers he was in bed with and represented in Congress.

A plan was coming together, but it needed to be mastered and sanctified.

That's where G. Edward Griffin's masterpiece of muckraking, The Creature from Jekyll Island, opens up. In chapter one, Griffin pulls back the cloak on Nelson Aldrich's plush private rail car to reveal the passengers heading, under the cover of darkness, from New Jersey to a hunting lodge on Jekyll Island, Georgia, both owned by J.P. Morgan.

Frank P. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York, the most powerful bank at the time, representing William Rockefeller and the international investment banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Company;

Henry P. Davison, senior partner of the J.P. Morgan Company;

Benjamin Strong, head of J.P. Morgan's Bankers Trust Company;

Paul M. Warburg, a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Company, a representative of the Rothschild banking dynasty in England and France, and brother to Max Warburg who was head of the Warburg banking consortium in Germany and the Netherlands."

It was at this meeting on Jekyll Island that the blueprint for the Federal Reserve System was laid out.

But it would take three more years, and the considerable power and money of the conspirators, to buy the Presidency of the United States in order to get his signature. He would sign the legislation that Congress was duped into passing in order to create the greatest money-making machine the world has ever known.

How did they do it? You'll get that in the next installment.

And one last thing: This isn't some conspiracy theory or maybe-it's-true-who-really-knows kind of thing.

About the Author

Shah Gilani is the Event Trading Specialist for Money Map Press. He provides specific trading recommendations in Capital Wave Forecast, where he predicts gigantic "waves" of money forming and shows you how to play them for the biggest gains. In Short-Side Fortunes, Shah shows the "little guy" how to make massive size gains – sometimes in a single day – by flipping large asset classes like stocks, bonds, commodities, ETFs and more. He also writes our most talked-about publication, Wall Street Insights & Indictments, where he reveals how Wall Street's high-stakes game is really played.

The items value has not changed. The purchaseing power of the dollar has gone down due to the Q.E. or money printing from the federal reserve. When the people start to understand, the fed. reserve will be shut down as it should be.

I'm in the middle of the 'Creature' book now. With multiple degrees in economics and finance and 30 years in business and investing I admittedly should have a better understanding of the Fed and the intricacies of it's sordid activities. The book is certainly revealing. Now I've a better understanding of what I dismissively cast is idiotic fiscal and monetary policy adopted by political morons with haven't' even a nominal understanding of money and economics may better be understood as demonic deception, abuse, and destruction in the name of political and financial gain for the banks and those willing to do their bidding. Sadly, we must assume 95% of us as American tax payers don't have the slightest understanding of how the how America is being destroyed by the very people elected to represent us. Perhaps, even worse, most are to ignorant or self absorbed to care.

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